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MACHINE Fon FEEDING UP, CUTTING, nnnrnsrme nrnncrronsonnnwsrnrn y a specification of Letters PatentNo. 26,543, dated n@Gennaerteo, `1859.`

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=ROBERT NV. WRIGHT, OF NEW HAVEN, CUNNECTIQ i To all whoml't may concern:

:Beit known-that I, ROBERT `W. iWniGHT, of New Haven,inthe county of NewiHaven and State of"Gonnecticut,1have invented certain `new 1 and useful `Improvements in Ma` chines for Feedin iup,iGummingior.Mois tening, Cutting Od, and Fasting` on the Di-` rections on Newspapers, Magazines, Parnphlets, orrany other Printed iMatter; and `I doherebydeclare the following to` bea full, clear, andeXact description of theconstruc` tion `and operation of theiisame, fas" Well as what i distinguishes it "from all other ma-` chines known for this purpose, reference being had to the` accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which r v r Figure 1 represents a perspective `view of the apparatus. Fig. 2, represents aside ele-` vation thereof. Fig. 3, represents a section through the feed rolls, and cuttin apparatus, and Fig. 4, represents a top p an.

Similar letters of reference where `they occur in the several figures, denote like parts of the Vcontrivance in all of them.

My invention consists in taking ribbons, llets or strips of paper on which names and directions Aare apart, and app ying them to a machine where they are automatically, and periodically fed up, gumr'd""`"(`r`moistened if previously gummed), cutoff, and pasted on, to newspapers, magazines or pamphlets, either by working the machine by hand or by connecting it to the press or machine where said things to be directed are printed, folded or in anywise prepared for circulation or distribution.

To enable others skilled in the art to make site end of the bed or frame are` arranged two pillar-blocks C for forming bearings for the journals of the gumming or moistening, and feeding rolls, as well asa support for the stationary part of the cutting device as will be explained hereafter. l

D, D, are two levers or arms pivoted at a passes over it. rinted at equal distances" `the cross-head or stock E,is so formedonj to the uprights` B4-theirrearendsibgfproy jectingback of the .pivotedpointam "so asto` `1 strike upon the adjusting` and vregulating y screwsc, ,whemthey `areyibrated.` iilloguthef l forward part of these leversD,i isattaehedmak cross-head E, that; `carries the blader onrshea cutter cZ-there being awhandle i-:cnneete to E, for` `working `the machine iby `hand though it M may `as". re'adily y be: connected with and worked by 4any1oftheinovngapazrts `fl z a printing` press i ori othelulacl,iine;j` li y SF, is a spring pawl, wwhich is i operated `1 by one ofthelevers `D,fby,n1cans.,of the lever,` workinggthroughnfl pawl, `3so1that the leverwill have anwe ent,` of motion without wor thelpawl; purpose `to be explained.: r i

Gr, is a box` or troughtforigumronmucilage of any kind `Wlnenwthc fillet Qftpaperisito r; gummed as it passes through themachinee f, 1 or for water, when thestrip has been previ! 1 ously gummed, to 1 meisten `it,and prepal itfor adhesion to the` newspaper or other article to be addressed.` Overthis trough is* 1 y arranged a roller f,for\supplyingythe Inu-@w cilage or water to the lletyof paper g`,that5` H, H, are the feed rolls, for drawinglalong y the strip of paper from thereehandin adv i vance of these rolls, is placed the` stationary shear blade, or cutter 719 which actingin concert with the movable@cutter;` d, sever-S1` the paperat exactly uniform distances-#and i its underside as to carryI down the severed# strip or name and `stick it` onto the paper f f .y or other thingto be addressed whichlies` upon the `elastic bedfLmade of rubber or: any other suitable elastic material.`

The two feed rolls H, H, are geared to-95 f; gether by gear Wheels m, 'h4-,the spring(` f pawl F, catching into the `onen, and causingf y r it to revolve a portionioflarevolutionpand; j thus turn its mate on fellow, to periodically" "1 feed up the strip of paper. If the pawlfand ILOOQ ratchet should feed up1the strip either ,toolg fast, or too slow, to bringthe separatenalnes t i v and addresses not intheeXact positionfrev` r i quired, it is only., necessary to `shorten ,orf f lengthen the vibration of.; the `levers D, `b yj11051` adjustingthe setscr lws @,to effect an 'exact feed motion.

r, is an under, ands, an upperguide"plate,` f d between `which thestripor fillet` ofl paperf.` i passes to prevent the shear blade,

from misplacing it. The vibrating shear blade moves in the arc of a circle of which a. is the center, but the cut is in a tangential line, and to prevent the blades from cutting against each other, circular guides u which may be elastic, are so arranged as to prevent any such contingency. The slot z', in the pawl F, allows the vibrating shear blade to rise above the throat formed by the two guard plates r, s, and through which the strip of 'paper passes before the feeding up beginswere it otherwise the paper would strike the shear blade or its stock, and become disarranged.

The operation of the machine is obvious. The end of the paper is passed through the throat, and then the levers carrying the vibrating knife are operated by hand or by machinery, and the names and addresses being equally spaced on the strip, are cut off, and carried down, and pasted onto the paper, magazine, sheet or pamphlet lying on the bed I. A shear knife pivoted at one of its ends, cannot carry down a slip thus cut 0E, as its hinged end, cannot descend below the hinged point; and if the bed were -raised or inclined to adapt it to such an inclined position as it would have, it would be troublesome vto introduce the paper or other thing to be addressed underneath it.

In the perfect working of this machine the names or addresses must be arranged at exactly equal distances from each other on the strip of paper, otherwise they cannot be regularly fed up t0 the point where they are to be cut olf and pasted onto the thing to be addressed-and this equidistantly spacing, with an intermittent motion of the parts working in concert with it, constitutes the gist of my invention. Y

Having thus fully described the nature and object of my invention what I claim therein as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is In combination with a strip or fillet of paper on which the names or addresses are equidistantly arranged, an intermittent feed motion, and a pasting, cutting, and carrying device working automatically together, substntially as herein described and represente ROBERT W. WRIGHT. Witnesses A. B. STOUGHTON, E. COHEN. 

